Prohibits
discrimination based on race,
color, religion, sex, or national
origin

Age
Discrimination in Employment
Act

Requires
employers to establish the identity
and eligibility to work of all
employees

3.2 Adverse Impact

The CEO of your organizations asks you to provide her with the answer to two
questions. First, she wants to know the results of recent expansion efforts in
which the organization hired 100 new employees. Specifically, she wants to know
whether the organization’s hiring practices resulted in any adverse impact
for protected classes. Second, she wants to know about the overall composition
of the organization’s workforce in terms of the labor market. She wants to
know whether any protected class is under-represented in relation to the local
population. Answer her two questions using the following data.

Expansion
Hire

Group

#
Interviewed

#
Hired

Hispanic-American

50

30

African-American

50

25

White

60

40

Asian-American

9

5

Comparison
of Workforce
with
External
Labor
Market

Group

%
of Workforce

%
of Labor Market

Hispanic-American

17

20

African-American

20

18

White

60

56

Asian-American

3

6

Review Questions

You are the first HR Director of a small but growing
philanthropic organization. The organization does not have job descriptions. You
mention to the executive director that one of your first projects is to begin a
job analysis project so that you can obtain data to write job descriptions and
job specifications. The executive director is not familiar with job analysis and
asks you to brief him on the process. What do you tell him?

You are the HR Director of a small not-for-profit
social service organization that has just received its first notification and
request for information ever from EEOC that a complaint of illegal
discrimination has been received. The President of the organization is
unfamiliar with the process and asks you to brief her on how the process
proceeds. What do you tell her?

You are the VP of HR for an organization that is
increasingly being affected by foreign competitors that have substantially lower
compensation costs. The CEO is contemplating a recommendation to the board of
directors that the organization explore a strategy of using contingent versus
permanent full-time workers. He has asked you to brief him on what the
advantages and disadvantages of such a strategy might be. How do you
respond?

You are the HR Director of a medium-sized manufacturing
firm that has recently refused accommodation to several individuals based on a
determination that they were not disabled. This resulted in formal complaints
under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The board of directors was briefed by
the CEO on the complaints and the directors would like you to brief them on the
definition of disability under the act. What do you tell them?

The CEO of your organization just came back from a
meeting in which the terms quid pro quo and hostile environment were used in a
discussion regarding preventing sexual harassment. He asks you to define them
for him. How would you define the two terms?